Mixogaster

Mixogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Microdontinae
Genus:	Mixogaster Macquart, 1842
Type species
Mixogaster conopsoides Macquart, 1842
Synonyms
Myxogaster Kertész, 1910 Myxogaster Shiraki, 1930

Mixogaster is a genus of hoverflies native to North America and South America,[1] with 21 known species.[2] Mixogaster is distinct by lacking an appendix on vein R4+5, having a reduced and bare metasternum, an unarmed scutellum, and usually an appendix on vein M extending in cell R4+5.[1] Larvae are found in ant nests.

Species

• M. anthermus (Walker, 1849)[3]
• M. breviventris Kahl, 1897 [4] [5]
• M. cicatrix Hull, 1954 [6]
• M. conopsoides Macquart, 1842 [7]
• M. cubensis Curran, 1932
• M. currani Hull, 1954 [6]
• M. delongi Johnston, 1924 [6]
• M. dimidiata Giglio-Tos, 1892
• Mixogaster fattigi (Skevington & Locke, 2019) [8]
• M. flukei Hull, 4[3][9] [6]
• M. imitator Thompson, 2004[9]
• M. johnsoni Hull, 1941 [6]
• M. lanei Carrera & Lenko, 1958
• M. lopesi Carrera & Lenko, 1958
• M. mexicana Macquart, 1846
• M. orpheus Hull, 1944
• M. pithecofascia Hull, 1944
• M. polistes Hull, 4[3][9] [6]
• M. rarior Shannon, 1925 [10]
• M. sartocrypta Hull, 4[3][9] [6]
• M. strictor Hull, 1941 [11]

• M. thecla Hull, 1954 [6]

References

1. Cheng, Xin-Yue; Thompson, F. Christian (2008). "A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1879. New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 21–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334. S2CID 4889764. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
2. Reemer, Menno; Ståhls, Gunilla (2013). "Generic revision and species classification of the Microdontinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)". ZooKeys (288): 1–213. doi:10.3897/zookeys.288.4095. PMC 3690914. PMID 23798897.
3. Walker, F. (1849). List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 485–687.
4. Kahl, P.H.I. (1897). "New species of the syrphid genera Mixogaster Macq. and Ceria Fabr., with notes". The Kansas University Quarterly. 6: 137–146.
5. Curran, Charles Howard (1925). "Contribution to a monograph of the American Syrphidae north of Mexico". The Kansas University Science Bulletin. 15: 7–216.
6. Hull, Frank M. (1954). "The Genus Mixogaster Macquart" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (1652).
7. Macquart, Pierre-Justin-Marie (1842). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxieme.--2e partie. Paris: Roret. pp. 5–140. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
8. Skevington, Jeffrey (2019). "New Syrphidae (Diptera) of North-eastern North America". Biodiversity Data Journal. 7: e36673. doi:10.3897/BDJ.7.e36673. PMC 6736894. PMID 31543695.
9. Marinoni, Luciane; Thompson, F. Christian (2003). "Flower flies of southeastern Brazil (Diptera: Syrphidae) Part I. Introduction and new species". Studia dipterologica. 10 (2): 565–578. ISSN 0945-3954.
10. Shannon, R.C (1925). "Some American Syrphidae (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 27: 107–112.
11. Hull, Frank M. (1941). "Some New Species of Syrphidae". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 36: 166.